Lacing-hook for flat laces.



No. 667,398. I Patented Feb. 5,-I9l.

a' 1j? w, A. KELLY.

v'melma Hoek Fon FLAT LAeEs,

(Application led Ont. 16, 1900.)

(No' lodel.)

NITED STATES PATENT Trucs:LH

WILLIAM ASHLEY KELLY, OF DAWSON, NEBRASKA.

LACING-HOOK FOR FLAT LACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 667,898, dated February5, 1901.

Application iiled October 16, 1900. Serial No. 33,278. kNo model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ASHLEY KELLY, residing at Dawson, in thecounty of Richardson and State of Nebraska, have invented certain usefulImprovements in Lacing-Hooks for Flat Laces; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to an improvement in lacing-hooks for i'latlaces.

The aim of my invention is to provide a lace-hook adapted to receive aHat lace to be used in connection with shoes, corsets, and the like, theobject being to retain the lace in a flat, uncrumpled, and compactcondition.

The use of my lacing-hook permits the employment of an elastic orinelastic lace.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure l a shoe providedwith :ny improved lace-hooks, showing a wide flat lacing in position, asingle lace being used. Fig. 2 shows a modification disclosing a hookhaving sloping turns to fit the slant of the lace. Fig. 3 discloses anedge view of Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 show a modification in which thelacing-bar is disposed squarely over the center of the eyelet. Figs. 6and 7 show a modification in which a lace-bar is at one side and in thesaine plane as the top of the eyelet.

In the accompanying drawings,S represents a suitable shoe, to the upperof which is secured a plurality of my flat lacing-hooks 2, one of thelacing-hooks being shown in detail in Figs. 4. and 5. Theshoe-upperinimediately below these lacing-hooks is slotted and providedwith ordinary eyelets 3 3,so that the lace after extending through theeyelet 3 passes through the lacing-hooks 2, asis shown in Fig. 1. Theuse of an exceedingly broad lace eyelet and hook permits the use of awide elastic lacing, which has not been possible in previous shoeconstructions, so that the use of a wide flat elastic union will insureease and comfort. The lace is finally secured by any ordinary suitableclasp It will be noticed that the invention coinprises a triple-barlacing-hook and embodies an eyelet 10, (see Figs. 4 and 5,) of the usualconstruction, which is secured to the shoe in the ordinary manner, theeyelet being clenched through the leather. Extending from this eyelet isthe bar 9, recurved to form the intermediate bar 8, this again beingrecurved to form the upper bar 7, the three bars being parallel, as maybe understood in referring to Fig. 5.

In securing these lacing-hooks to the shoe the lace-bars are extended inalinement with the lace-openings 3 within the shoe. The intermediate bar8 I term the lace-bar, because the lacing 1 is made to fold over thesame, the top bar 7 forming a sort of keeper or guard, as it were, andthe lower bar 9 performing the function of a holder.

In the modification shown in Figs. 2 and 3 the holder-bar 5 is at anangle to the lace-bar,

while the guard-bar 2 is slightly shorter than thelace-bar 4C.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I show still another modication, in which theholder-bar 13 extends.

laterally and parallel with the lace-bar 12.

The use of a lacing-hook as disclosed in my invention insures a neat andsightly appearance of the lace. It further enables the operator to use awide lace, whichis much more dressy and can be made so wide and thehooks placed so close together that the slit within the shoe-upper maybe entirely hidden by means of a handsome lace, which can of course bemade of silk or any other suitable material. The lace, further, does notcrumple, as it is compelled to lie dat. The lacing-hooks may be secured,if desired, by means of prongs or be stitched to the shoeupper.

I do not wish to be confined to a specific sort of eyelet, as the formof the eyelet may be changed without departing from the spirit 0f myinvention.

In the drawings I have shown but one lace, though it should beunderstood that two laces could be used.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a triplebar lacing-hook, comprising afastening-eyelet, a bar extending from said eyelet recurving to form alace-holder, said holder being extended and recurved to form a guard.

WILLIAM ASHLEY KELLY.

In presence of- Z. E. KELLY, M. L. LIBBEE.

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